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FACILITIES 50 TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
TOP KIT PLANNED INVESTMENTS 2020/2021 THE MILL £4M
Storage system upgrades, 4K HDR monitoring, more in Real-Time
and Virtual Production hardware, workstation hardware upgrades, alongside peripheral upgrades (tablets etc.)
JELLYFISH £3.9M
Further investments with Pixit Media, Teradici, localised co-
locations and Microsoft Azure on expanding Jellyfish’s global
community of talent and the security for it to remain TPN compliant.
MPC £3.2M
Proprietary tools for Film & Advertising
MOLINARE £2.5M
1x Theatrical Atmos Mixing Stage, 1x Dolby Atmos HE Theatre, 1x Theatrical 4K Grading Theatre, 1x
Theatrical Foley Stage, 1x TV Foley Stage, P-Capture Studio, Baselight
Upgrades, Core Network Upgrades, Archive Solution, Dailies and VFX
DOCK10 £1 .5M
Due to the pandemic we are going to be investing more money in
additional NEXIS storage on site in additon to more cloud storage to better support remote working.
CINESITE £1M
Upgrading our core infrastructure as part of our five year renewal plan
FILMS AT 59 £1M
HDR monitoring, nearline storage, Baselight upgrades, Storage DNA LTO upgrades.
HALO £1M
Possibly a bit too early to say. We have plans but may choose to sit
tight for a little while and see how quickly the production community get back up to speed.
THE FARM £1M
Infrastructure upgrade, remote working capability, seamless
OUTPOST VFX £500K Increased support for remote function, cloud infratructure improvements.
ITN POST £350K Further CPU Replacement,
Expansion of Edit capable CPUs, Replacement for EOL Avid Storage
Winter 2020 F25
televisual.com GORILLA £500K Additional connectivity, Remote
working kit (signinat servers), UHD/ HDR monitors, Dolby Atmos
working across our global sites
COMPANY 3 £750K We are constantly looking at workflow efficiencies and will
continue to explore our remote working systems
PINEWOOD £700K
Further AVID S6 consoles, a major KVM system as part of a complete machine room overhaul and 4K projection.
FITZROVIA £600K Baselight Suite, Flame 2020, After
Effects, Premiere, C4D Workstations in new penthouse facility as an
additonal arm to Fitzrovia Post. SPLICE £600K
Continued investment roadmap
from 2019/2020 - all areas of the facility.
CLEAR CUT £550K Storage - complete renewal.
Offlines. Remote working services. Audio speakers and monitoring. Atmos HE and ADR. Network
capacity improvements. Infosec security tools. Monitors.
CINELAB £500K
More film scanning capability, more high performance storage, digital dailies services,
ENVY £500K Two new divisions
unscripted and factual utilising this technology as well.” Molinare says that “working at
higher resolutions and bit depths driven by UHD and HDR will continue to put pressure on internal networks and storage solutions. Investment in core infrastructure will be a key requirement. More production with Atmos HE and HDR deliverables will continue to drive investment in these areas.” All this will mean “innovation in HDR and 4K, 6K and 8K workflows are therefore important to ensure the demand for quality content is met throughout the year,” says Technicolor. And it won’t end there. As Splice
says: “Conversations are already starting about 8K picture post.” And, as Onsight points out “although delayed, with the Olympics in Japan in 2021, 8k post will become a new technology trend.”
COMPUTER SAYS YES The promise of AI in post workflows is also front of mind for facilities with the hope that it “will improve workflows and also remove legwork enabling our talent to spend more time to produce amazing work for clients,” says GPS. No.8 also has hopes of “incorporating developing AI tools into vfx workflows reducing the need for artists to spend time on less creative tasks such as roto and clean-up.” The Mill says developing AI tools
will allow facilities to “put more emphasis on the artistry, craft and our talent. The improvements AI has had on image quality has been impressive. AI additions to our regular software packages have bolstered our output in all areas including animation, facial performance / performance capture, colour correction, rotoscoping and clean-up to name a few.” It’s a time of great change. As One
Of Us says: “It does feel like a cluster of new technologies has arrived. One lesson from the advent of AI and machine learning is that technology sometimes makes utterly unpredictable leaps forward. Which technology will have the biggest effect on the industry is very hard to call - it seems more sensible to say that we are working at a time of great change, and we need to be vigilant, flexible and smart. Easy!”
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